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GAN 0R BOX. v No. 408,911. Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ELZEAR C. CHAGNON AND MAXIME VIRNOCHE, OF IVOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND.

CAN OR BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,911, dated August 13, 1889. Application filed June 20, 1889. Serial No. 314,906. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.- to any particular means of attachment, as it is Be it known that We, ELZEAR C. CHAGNON simply necessary that a joint should be had and MAXIME VIRNOCHE, citizens of the United Which will exclude the open air from the con- States, residing at Voonsocket, in the county tents of the box or can at all times. This 5 of Providence and State of Rhode Island, rotatable plate or top Dis also provided with 55 have invented certain new and useful Iman aperture E, which is of a size correspondprovements in Cans or Boxes; and We do ing to that in the cover and is designed to declare the following to be a full, clear, and register therewith. Above this opening in exact description of the invention, such as the plate D is secured a measure F, which lo Will enable others skilled in the art to which may be of any suitable size. This measure 6o it appertains to make and use the same. is provided with a removable cap G, which rlhis invention has relation to improveis preferably provided with a sight-glass I-I, ments in cans or boxes*such as used for Which covers the top of the cap and permits holding baking poWders, ground coffees, a View through the measure and into the can.

15 spices, etc.; and it has for its object to pro- It is obvious that the glass may be dis- 65 vide such cans with means for effectively expensed with in the measure without departcluding air from the contents and the proing from the spirit of our invention; but it is vision of means for measuring the contents desirable to employ a glass, a sheet of mica in desired quantities Without removing the or other transparent material, so that the 2o cover of the can or exposing to the outer air user in turning the measure may be able to 7o onlythe contents of the measure as they are see when the same has been brought to regisdischarged for use. ter With the hole in the cover.l

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is As it is desirable that there should be some a side elevation of a can With our improve positive means employed to indicate when 2 5 ments applied. Fig. 2 is a plan vieW of the the measure has been turned, so as to coin- 75 cover in an inverted position, showing the eide With the opening in the cover, and also semi-rotatable top moved, so as to expose a when the measure has been turned sufficiently part of theorice in the cover. Fig. 3is adiato have its plate cover the opening in the metrical sectional view of the cover with the cover, We have provided at suitable points 3o measure thereon; and Fig. 4 is a perspective stops d and e, and arranged on the plate D a 8o vieW of the cover bearing the measure redepending arm I, which may travel from one moved from the can. stop to the other and limit the movements of Referring by letter to the said drawings, A the measure beyond these points. This will indicates a can made of sheet metal or other serve as a notification to the user that the 35 suitable material. This can may be of any measure is in Vproper position at one stop to S5 suitable shape, or a box may be employed. measure out the contents, and When at the 'B indicates a cover for the can. This cover other stop it will show that the aperture in is provided with the usual skirt-flange a and the cover has been properly closed. the top or roof b. Within the top of the cover In putting up yeastpowder or the-like the 4o and at a suitable point near its periphery manufacturer removes the cover bearing the 9o is an orifice C, Which may be of any suitmeasure and fills the can,after which he seals able size to permit the discharge of the conit tightly by pasting a label over the joint or tents at that point. Upon this cover is a top4 by solderingthe joint, it being simply necesplate D, which has its edge flanged or othersary for the user to manipulate the plate bear- 45 wise formed to engage the-periphery of the ing the measure Without removing the entire 95 cover B, so as to permit a rotary movement cover. on the latter. Having described our invention, what we y It is obvious that the rotatable plate or top claim is- D may be secured to the cover in various 1. A box or can cover having an aperture 5o Ways, and We do not Wish to confine ourselves in its top, in combination With a semi-rotata- Ico ble measure having an opening in its bottom adapted to register with the opening in the cover, and also having a removable cap earrying atransparent top, substantially as specified.

2. A ean or box Cover having the stops (Z e and the opening C n its top, in combination with the plate D, having a dependingarm I to engage the stops, the measure l1, secured to said plate above the opening therein, and the removable top G, having a transparent top Il, substantially as specified.

An improved article of manufact-ure, eensisting of a ean A, aeover having an opening in its top, and the lateral stops or lugs (l e.,

the semi-rotatable plate on the cover having` an arm to engage the stop-lugs, and alsohaving an opening to register with the opening in the cover, the measure secured to the plate above the opening, and the removable cap having a transparent top, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses;

ELZEAR C. CHAGNON. MAXIME VIRNOCIIE.

Vitliesses:

JOHN J. IIEFFERNAN, GEO. W. SPAULDING. 

